Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taboos & Codes. As a temporary solution to the shortage, FORTUNE finds Wilson Wyatt's 2,700,000-unit housing program (see above) a worthy...
...three obvious assumptions: 1) the population of the new Germany would not exceed 65,500,000 (many an expert believed it would go higher), 2) Germany would find foreign markets for its textiles (competition from Britain and the U.S. would be stiff), 3) Germany would remain one economic unit (the French are still opposed...
...victory Charles I's third parliament had won over him on that point, or how a protest against quartering troops on citizens came to be in the Declaration of Independence and a guarantee against it in the U.S. Constitution. Was there an issue about the size of army units? Marshall knew that wartime efficiency called for army groups. He also understood that army groups in peacetime China would almost inevitably revive warlordism; over China's poor transportation system, a central government would never be able to concentrate enough men to overpower a rebellious army group leader. The Chinese...
...shell was suspended on a central stainless steel mast, firmly anchored and capped by a rudderlike ventilator, which turns with the wind. Inside, the house was unexpectedly spacious: two bedrooms,, two baths, a large living room with fireplace, kitchen and some built-in furniture. A heating and air-conditioning unit, operated by either gas or electricity, was neatly stowed away in the innards, along with most of the plumbing. (Bucky Fuller had temporarily abandoned the idea of heating with sewage...
Unlike other prefabricated houses, the Fuller unit can be made with mass production materials and techniques, notably those of the aircraft industry. Beech Aircraft Corp., the only licensee so far, is now tooling up for production. It expects to be making 200 houses a day by next January. Bucky Fuller, whose company is only a sales organization, plans to license other planemakers, hopes eventually to roll houses off production lines at the rate of 185,000 a year. Washington housing officials have said that the house, turned out in idle plants, is probably the best answer yet to the housing...